Re: [O] Customizing Org 8.0 Export

[John Hendy]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Scott Randby <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 05/21/2013 01:25 AM, John Hendy wrote:
>> On May 20, 2013 9:03 PM, "Scott Randby" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Is there any way to make all of org's variables available for
>>> customization on startup?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, see the original exporter announcement:
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/65574
>>
>> Section 3.0 calls out two methods of setting available backends. I'm
>> guessing you are customizing org-export-backends vs (require 'ox-backend).
>> Try requiring the backend and all associated variables will be there on
>> startup.
>>
>> John
>
> Thanks for the solution.
>
> This is the second time in a row I've been referred to the original
> exporter announcement. I'm sorry that my questions are so basic, but I
> put off switching to 8.0 because my understanding of how org and Emacs
> work is not very deep and I know little elisp. Once I have things set
> up, I leave them alone and get to work. I'm very grateful to this list
> for helping me figure out things that, in hindsight, are obvious.

No problem, and I wouldn't say it was *that* obvious :) I found this
document extremely helpful:
- http://orgmode.org/worg/org-8.0.html

I also started (and should really update again/maintain!) this as a
landing place for documenting other things as they come up:
- http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/ox-overview.html

And have a blog post walking through setting things up here, if it helps:
- 
http://jwhendy.blogspot.com/2013/03/migrating-to-new-org-mode-exporter-org.html


Good luck! We're all learning here, so no worries on the mailing list.
More things for Google to index for users stumbling on this after you!


John

>
> Scott Randby